Michael Elliott has represented business clients, institutional trustees, and financial institutions in M&A, corporate finance, commercial law, and general business matters for over 30 years.
Mike’s work as corporate counsel involves matters ranging from counseling management and corporate boards on corporate governance and legal compliance to structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex business and commercial transactions and arrangements, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures.
Mike also has a specialized range of experience in advising business owners and institutional trustees in transactions involving the use of leveraged ESOPs as a means of transitioning business ownership to employee stock ownership plans. On the commercial finance and commercial law side of his practice, Mike routinely handles commercial loan and capital financing transactions on behalf of both business clients and as outside and local counsel to regional and national institutional lenders, and has significant experience in structuring and negotiating workout arrangements and acquisitions of companies out of bankruptcy. Mike is also involved in the firm’s nonprofit organization practice where he represents various educational institutions and charitable organizations on a wide array of general matters.
Mike is deeply committed to providing clients with the highest quality of legal services at affordable costs, and his by-words are simple—“competency, integrity and service.”